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September 2017

September 12, 2017
This semester I have the privilege of teaching Philosophy of Knowledge, a favorite course that for...
September 11, 2017
One year ago I posted the essay below on the fifteenth anniversary of 9 Never...
September 08, 2017
Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In...
September 06, 2017
In last Sunday's gospel reading, Jesus tells us that those who wish to follow him...
September 04, 2017
Last May I posted an essay that ended with a note that my teaching colleague...
September 03, 2017
If we remembered that water takes its color from the vessel containing it, we would...

August 2017

August 31, 2017
Of all the lessons I've learned in my three decades of teaching, none is more...
August 29, 2017
We are in the business of believing in, and promoting, things that don’t yet exist....
August 27, 2017
Ten years ago this summer, I attended a writers conference for the first time in...
August 24, 2017
When I was a young professor, the chair of my department frequently would say in...
August 22, 2017
There is a big difference between "Christendom" (an institution) and "Christianity" (a way of life)--it...
August 20, 2017
There are few pastimes more popular than playing “What If?” It’s a favorite theme, for...
August 17, 2017
There are reasons to be hopeful--even on those days that Nazis, white supremacists, racists, and...
August 15, 2017
The more I realize why my faith is important to me, the more I realize...
August 13, 2017
April may be the cruelest month, if T. S. Eliot is correct, but for teachers,...
August 10, 2017
Annie Dillard once wrote that if we truly paid attention to what we were doing,...
August 08, 2017
More than any analysis or punditry over the past eight months, rereading the Book of...
August 06, 2017
Angels show up in all shapes and sizes, in all sorts of situations and scenarios....
August 03, 2017
We often tend to domesticate Jesus' parables, turning them into something attractive and nice. But...
August 01, 2017
As everyone else I know, I often suffer from impostor's syndrome and feelings of insignificance....

July 2017

July 30, 2017
In the book of Genesis, when asked by God about the whereabouts of Abel, Cain...
July 27, 2017
'When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder/If I have made of my life something...
July 25, 2017
After a major stroke, neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor lost function in her left brain. But...
July 23, 2017
Jesus said 'Be ye therefore perfect." Wouldn't it have been more sensible for him to...
July 21, 2017
Reza Aslan is a Muslim; I am a Christian. But we share something fundamentally important...
July 19, 2017
Every writer knows that writing is an inefficient and non-economical process. One never knows when...
July 17, 2017
Human love in the purest forms we can know it, wife and husband, parent and...
July 14, 2017
Your assignment is to name the eighteen most important figures in the Western liberal arts...
July 11, 2017
A fresh look at my world without God-tinted lenses reveals that suffering and violence are...
July 09, 2017
In today's gospel, Jesus says that his yoke is easy and his burden is light....
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